The Mayor of Candaba, Mr. Pelayo, in rabidly defending GMA's run for congress said that people in Pampanga are intelligent enough to decide to vote for Gloria. If voting for the largely discredited Gloria to Congress is an intelligent decision, I wonder what dumb now is, not for the Pampangos because I trust many are sensible enough to disagree with Mr. Pelayo, but for Mr. Pelayo himself. In defending Gloria, the mayor cited economic growth as the former's achievement. I wonder if the mayor knew that we had three successive quarters of less than 1 percent growth and is estimated to have great difficulty in achieving an already very conservative target of 1.8 percent growth, because if he does, I wonder now what growth means for Mr. Pelayo. However, I absolutely agree with Mr. Pelayo that the Pampangos are intelligent but not because they are going to vote for Gloria, rather, they are intelligent enough to understand that it is but natural for these greedy mayors and other officials to endorse Gloria not because they have the people's welfare in their hearts but because they are salivating on their anticipated share of the Ali Baba stash, that the Pampangos are intelligent enough to know that they are Filipinos first and foremost and they are not going to vote for what most people consider the most corrupt leader we ever had, that the Pampangos are intelligent enough not to let their politicians speak for them when the know very well that these people do not really represent them but their own(the politicians) selfish interests.